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Updated: June 15, 2025
She decided to visit Henriette, if only to divert her from the seemingly mad project of a union with the Chevalier. Meantime Count Linieres had decided to exercise the power of the dread lettres de cachet. In the France of that day, personal rights were unknown.
Subject only to the King's will, no other warrant than the Prefect's signature was required to send anyone into exile or to life imprisonment. The means that Linieres now had in mind were often used to quell rebellious lovers. He would brand this inconvenient, presumptuous Henriette Girard as a fallen woman, imprison her at La Salpetriere, and then ship her as a convict to Louisiana.
Should I escape, it will be to your arms. Picard knows my secret plan and will tell you until then, courage! A thousand kisses from your Maurice. Henriette kissed the little paper fervently. Countess de Linieres decided to make a clean breast of her wretched past to her husband. "It was not that I I sinned," she sobbed, kneeling at his feet, "In the sight of God I am innocent, though erring!
Having ample wealth, the Count desired preferment. The post of Minister of Police was a steppingstone. He accepted it whilst visions of a grand alliance for his nephew, Chevalier de Vaudrey, pointed to dukedom or even princely rank as the family's goal. It thus vexed Linieres exceedingly that the Chevalier should have been mixed up in a duel about an unknown girl.
He is going to put a stop to all our amusements, and, Marquis, this may be the last entertainment you will give at Bel-Air." "Nonsense!" exclaimed the host. "I'd like to see the minister of police who would dare to interfere with the pleasures of a French nobleman. Who and what is he?" "He is from Touraine; is called the Count de Linieres, and is the uncle of the Chevalier Maurice de Vaudrey."
"Wishes to impose on him," interrupted the Countess bitterly. "Impose on him?" repeated de Linieres. "It is a magnificent alliance, which will complete the measure of the distinguished honors with which His Majesty deigns to favor us." "Have you spoken to the Chevalier yet?" "No, but I am expecting him every moment, and I wished to talk with him in your presence."
Big with the prospective grandeur of his house, he hesitated momentarily over the manner of delivering it. "My dear Maurice," said the Count finally, "the King did me the honor to receive me yesterday, and he spoke of you." "Of me?" asked de Vaudrey in surprise. "He takes a great interest in you," continued de Linieres, now speaking quickly.
In the chair of State, on this day of petitions, his head and hand busied themselves with a wonderful new doorlock he had devised. "Sire," said the suppliant de Linieres, "in the matter of the grand alliance betwixt my nephew Chevalier de Vaudrey and your ward Princesse de Acquitaine " The monarch nodded absentmindedly. "Oh, yes, yes! Of course.
To the French party there came time enough the lord John of Landas and the lord of Vaudenay; they alighted afoot and went into the king's battle, and a little beside fought the duke of Athens, constable of France, and a little above him the duke of Bourbon and many good knights of Bourbonnais and of Picardy with him, and a little on the one side there were the Poitevins, the lord de Pons, the lord of Partenay, the lord of Dammartin, the lord of Tannay-Bouton, the lord of Surgieres, the lord John Saintré, the lord Guichard d'Angle, the lord Argenton, the lord of Linieres, the lord of Montendre and divers other, also the viscount of Rochechouart and the earl of Aunay; and of Burgoyne the lord James of Beaujeu, the lord de Chateau-Vilain and other: in another part there was the earl of Ventadour and of Montpensier, the lord James of Bourbon, the lord John d'Artois and also the lord James his brother, the lord Arnold of Cervolles, called the archpriest, armed for the young earl of Alençon; and of Auvergne there was the lord of Mercoeur, the lord de la Tour, the lord of Chalençon, the lord of Montaigu, the lord of Rochfort, the lord d'Acier, the lord d'Acon; and of Limousin there was the lord de Melval, the lord of Mareuil, the lord of Pierrebuffiere; and of Picardy there was the lord William of Nesle, the lord Arnold of Rayneval, the lord Geoffrey of Saint-Dizier, the lord of Chauny, the lord of Helly, the lord of Montsault, the lord of Hangest and divers other: and also in the king's battle there was the earl Douglas of Scotland, who fought a season right valiantly, but when he saw the discomfiture, he departed and saved himself; for in no wise he would be taken of the Englishmen, he had rather been there slain.
Permit me to speak to Maurice." "Very well," said de Linieres sternly. Then turning to the Chevalier he said, in a voice which he had never before used to his nephew: "We will return to this another time. You will remember that as head of the family its honor is confided to my care, and I will not suffer any one to sully it with a stain." De Vaudrey had nearly lost all control of his temper.
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